Word: cautiousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...golden onion domes. The quiet men of the new regime buried it in a handbook of Soviet statistics that simply appeared-six months later-in Moscow book stores. But if the style in Moscow is different, the substance largely is not. With less flair but more efficiency and cautious consistency, the new masters of Moscow have continued Khrushchev's interdependent program of coexistence abroad and goulash Communism at home...
Most Protestant theologians take a cautious view of process thinking. Existentialist John Macquarrie of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary argues that while the idea of an incomplete God on the way toward perfection is intellectually attractive-it helps explain why an all-powerful Creator has not yet triumphed over evil, for example-it also seems spiritually unsatisfying...
...Mexicans, the country is a tourist's legal jungle. Most Americans stand by after a car accident; most Mexicans bolt. And anyone involved can be jailed without bail until a non-judge traffic expert dictates a verdict. Mexicans also rely on the mordida (bribe) to pay off witnesses. Cautious Americans carry insurance covering legal aid-and plead innocent to any charge. Sample: failure to pay hotel bills, which may be a nonbailable crime. Conversely, suing hotels for personal injury is virtually impossible; required witnesses (hotel employees) would be fired if they talked...
...Cabinet appointments have generally worked well. When Wilson named Callaghan as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and then put George Brown in the new post of Minister for Economic Affairs, the immediate result was tension between the two. Callaghan's job, after all, required him to keep a cautious eye on the cash available in the Treasury, and Brown's ministry was necessarily dedicated to expansion. Between them, Callaghan and Brown worked out most of the details of the austerity budget, and Brown has succeeded-on paper at least-in getting a considerable number of trade unions and employers...
...SCLC staff? Was there a danger that massive Northern participation would smother or inhibit local initiative? And, undoubtedly, Weiner was reluctant to throw his organization into the factional strief of the civil rights movement: many YD's belong to SNCC, and SNCC takes a dim, or at least cautious view of this SCLC undertaking...